How many young Afghan women are excluded from education, employment, or training?
UN Women’s Afghanistan Gender Index found nearly eight in ten young women were not in education, employment, or training.
What the figure or term means
The rate was nearly four times the corresponding rate for men.
This combined indicator captures exclusion from three major pathways but does not explain every individual reason.
Restrictions, care burdens, mobility, labor demand, and access all matter.
Attribute the finding to the Gender Index 2024, published in 2025.
How to use this information responsibly
Current sources show how restrictions, funding cuts, disease, malnutrition, and access barriers overlap, especially for women and children.
National figures should not be used to diagnose an individual, predict one child’s future, or flatten the experiences of all Afghan women and families.
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